[Pkg-zenoss-team] [Zenoss] #1763: copyright issues - again

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#1763: copyright issues - again
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 Reporter:  bzeimetz  |       Owner:  edahl    
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  blocker   |   Milestone:           
Component:  All       |     Version:  2.0.2    
 Severity:  Days      |    Keywords:  copyright
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 We found several copyright issues again, which render zenoss not
 distributeable, unfortunately.

 '''Products/ZenModel/data/CISCO-PRODUCTS-MIB.my'''
 {{{
   Copyright (c) 1995-2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 by cisco Systems, Inc.
   All rights reserved.
 }}}

 you don't even have the right to share this.

 '''Products/ZenStatus/udp.py'''

 {{{
 # Copyright 1997, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
 # written by Jeremy Hylton, jeremy at cnri.reston.va.us
 }}}

 same issue. But I guess it was taken from some opensource-project? add a
 proper license then, please.


 '''ZenUtils/js'''

 is a mess of javascript files without any license, or with *go and find
 the license*. This is not really distributeable as it is. Most files seem
 to be from Mochkit, which is under MIT and I think the Artistic License,
 please check and add the appropriate licenses. This is also missing in the
 documentation on your website!
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 ''FormCollect.js'' is under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
 License, which is at least problematic, and probably not free according to
 the DFSG. I'm not sure about this at the moment, but I'll try to figure it
 out. But as it is a small file, I guess we should find a way of a
 cleanroom re-implementation, if there's no other way to solve this.

 '''scripts/external/coverage.py'''
 same thing. no proper license. but that's easy for the debian part - I'll
 just remove that from the source. But you want to fix it, as you're
 distributing it.


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 no so horrible issues:

 '''inst/COPYRIGHT.txt'''

 {{{
 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 }}}
 all file headers are limiting the license to version 2. You should decide
 what you want.

 '''Products/ZenWidgets/license.txt'''

 that's the LGPL, while all files mention the GPL.

 '''zenpacks/*'''

 Old headers on files, please add a GPLed header, or remove them and
 probably add a proper license.


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 Unfortunately those issues were detected by one of Debian's ftp-masters,
 as we trusted you and didn;t recheck every single file before Stefano
 uploaded zenoss. This means it'll take at least 2-3 weeks after you've
 fixed those issues becuase that's at least the time the package wills tay
 in the NEW queue usually, and we need time to include all this stuff into
 debian/copyright. Please note that you should fix them for the safety of
 your own ass, and not for us - and probably because you want to see Zenoss
 in Debian and Ubuntu. Otherwise the packaging has only one little bug left
 as far as I can see and would be ready tomorrow. At least I'll try to get
 a version to test out within the next days.


 Best regards,

 Bernd

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